Procedure for the 2002 NetBSD Board Elections

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The Administrator establishes the List of Active Members, using the
criteria of the NetBSD bylaws to determine who has the right to
vote.

The List of Active Members is appropriately published to the
Members of the NetBSD Foundation. Changes to the List of Active
Members may be made during a 30 day objection period, as detailed
in the bylaws. Each change shall be published not later than the
next business day, following the day an objection was received.
Objections and petitions shall be sent to the Acting Secretary of
the NetBSD Foundation, Christos Zoulas <christos@NetBSD.org> with
CC: to the Administrator, Lex Wennmacher <wennmach@NetBSD.org>.

At the end of the 30 day objection period, the List of Voters is
established as a frozen-in version of the List of Active Members.

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A Validator is selected, from a pool of volunteers, by using a
publically verifiable random selection process.

Details of the selection process will be announced on the
...@NetBSD.org mailing list.

The Validator generates a voting PGP key pair and publishes the
public key to the List of Voters.

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The Administrator generates "voting keys", one unique key assigned
to each voter. The voting keys serve as authenticating token for
participation in the voting.

The voting e-mail may optionally be encrypted using the Validator's
public voting PGP key.

For every vote received, the Validator checks that the voting key
in the vote is in his list of voting keys, and places the voting
key in the list of already voted keys. The Validator keeps a record
of all received votes.

Voters may cast their votes by sending identical copies multiple
times. If multiple votes from one voter are received, it will be
checked if the are identical. If they are, they will be accepted, and
are counted as one vote. If they are found to differ, the votes will
be discarded.

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The Validator sends the lexigraphically sorted list of already
voted keys to the Administrator.

He then separates the voting keys from the confirmation codes/
votes, for each received vote, and sends the confirmation codes and
associated votes in randomized order and separate from the list of
already voted keys to the Administrator.

The Administrator tallies the votes and publishes them accompanied
with the confirmation codes. He also publishes the names of the
voters from which votes were received. This is the "preliminary
ballot".

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In a two-business day appeal period the voters have a chance to
object to how their vote was tallied.

Appeals must be send to the Validator with CC: to the Acting
Secretary of the Foundation, Christos Zoulas <christos@NetBSD.org>.

Appeals must not be encrypted.

An appeal may be sent using an
anonymous remailer
but must include the voting key. The Validator shall confirm to the
Acting Secretary of the Foundation if the voting key of the appeal is valid.

Any requested changes to the preliminary ballot made in an appeal,
authenticated by a valid voting key, will be applied to the ballot.

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The Administrator declares the result of the election as the final
ballot.